Paper-gage for type-writers.



g- H. HERMANSEN.

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APPLICATION FI LED DEC. lh ISH.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 6. H. HERMANSEN.

PAPER GAGE FOR TYPE WRITERS. 1]

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 11. 1914.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- scones HENRY HERMANSEN, or SACRAMENTO, c amomile.

PAPER- GAGE FOB TYPE-WRITERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

Application filed December 11, 1914. Serial No. 876,748.

To all whom, it may concern:

, Be it known that I, GEonoE H. HERMAN- sun, a citizen. of the United States of America, and a resident of Sacramento, county of Sacramento, and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Imp-rovements in Paper-Gages for Type-Writers, of

which the following is a full and clear specification.

My invention relates to improvements in paper gages adapted to enable the operator of a typewriter to determine, through an automatic signal: first, when the operator arrives at the last or bottom line to be writ- ].5 ten on asheet of paper of any length on which. a bottom margin of any predeter mined width desired; second, to enable the operator to see at a glance how'many more lines remain to be written. on a page,,thus

,20 saving time and paper and securing greater neatn ess and uniformity in the writing to be done; and, third, to enable the operator M to write any given number of lines provided ;for,without fear of runningpast the numilibefof lines desired. The invention has for its further object to provide simple means to f. .-';enable the operator to center any given numbcroi lines on a given size paper, whether .5 the lines be single, double. or triple space.

so I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in

. i which similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, which views are described as follows:

F igurel is aside elevation of my device ,3. applied to an Underwood typewriter, model Fig. 2 a front view of my device detached from the typewriter; Fig. dis a back' view of the same;

hqEig. etis a. detail view of a gage plate for assistmg the, operator in centering the reading matter on apage; and

i 1 the top of the frame of tlie'typewriter, these l? p liaclrwardly from themachine frame eaLs being so positioned that the supporting 'L' Qlatefleonsisting of the] sections a, a) will at,;f' i\.n.,angle extending upwardly and The hinges 6 enable the upper section of the supporting plate to be folded down over the top of the machine to enable the machine to be covered in the usual way. If a means is desired to lock the upper 'section in its operative o sition, I emplo) the spring catches e which through eyes 7 carried by the lower section of the supporting plate.

On the face of the supporting plate is marked a vertical inch gage C and alongside the same is marked off a age B for indicating single spacing, there oing, as usual six single spaces to an inch. Ad acentthe inch scale, the supporting plate is vertically slotted, and back of this slot is arranged a ratchet bar g. Slidably mounted on this bar 9 is a slide it provided with spring pawls 11 adapted to engage the teeth of bar g and thus be held in any position which'it may be adjusted to along the bar g. The front end of the slide it works in the aforesaid slot and carries a trip lever A which extends are adapted to snap make electric contact with a companion con- 7 tact is mounted on the slide h but insulated therefrom. The contact is is provided with a lateral finger Z which is connected electri cally to a conductor m leading from the bat l'ery n and containing a buzzer or other electric signal a, the other branch'y') of the circuit leading from the battery. to a ground on the frame of the machine. It will thus be seen that when the trip lever A is raised, its

'contact j will make contact with Contact is;

and thus complete the circuit through the buzzer, thereby producing an audiblealarm, The object in downwardly curving the outer end of the lever A is to permit the tail end of the paper to slide down the same without operating the signal while the paper is passing through the machine. After the paper has passedthrough the machine sufliciently to have the forward or ascending end lie by gravity against the front face of the supporting plate, it will be seen that as the paper is fed through the machine this forward edge of the paper will slide up the front face of the supporting plate, and that when it raises the trip lever A contact will be made and the alarm will be soylfdcd.

and number 3 column, triple spaces.

The position of thetpi lever with reference to the scales B and will be determined by -the length of the paper and the bottom margin desired. Ear instance, if it be desired to warn the operator when the writing point on the )aper is three inehesfrom the lower edge 0 a thirteen-inch sheet, the trip lever will be set? to operate the alarm when the ascending end of the sheet reaches 10 on the inch scale, the scale shown being adapteg for paper up to thirteen inches in length. I hen the trip lever is thus set at 10, it will be observed that the alarm will be sounded when the three-inch bottom margin is pa e.

n the opposite side of the above described slot I form a depression in the face of the supporting plate sufiiciently deep to receive a gage plate '9, shown in detail in Fig. 4, this gage plate being adapted to slide up and down in said depression, means being provided for locking it in any of its adjusted positions. The depression in which this plate slides extends down into the lower section a. of the supporting plate. In the lower part of the depression a scale is marked off for paper having a length from seven to thirteen inches. Any suitable means may be employed for locking this gage plate in its adjusted positions; as an instance,21 illustrate a locking means similar to the'looking means employed for locking the slide h, these means consisting of a slide 1" whose front edge works through a slot in the bottom of the depression and which is provided with a pair of spring pawls 8 adapted to cooperate with the notched rear edge of the stationary bar 1 The gage plate 9' is provided on its face with three vertical columns numbered 1, 2 and 3. Number 1 column indicates single spaces; number 2 column, double spa rieg;

e gage will be so positioned on the supporting plate that when the lower edgeof the plate 9 is adjusted to the 13 inch mark on said gage, the plate Q will be in position to indicate at a lance to the operator the number of sin le, double and triple spaces on a 13-inch s eet after the sheet has been fed into the machine far enough to provide the desiredto margin.

The gage p ate g cooperates with gage B to perform one of the important ob ects of the invention, viz., approximately centering any desired number of lines on a page, or,

in other-Words, to so position a certain number ofsliines. on a page as to leave approximately an equal space at the top and bottom edges of the paper. This is accomplished in the following manner: Assuming that 13 inch paper ,is used, the gage g is set as inseen thntthis bottom edge will also reglsterwith space 29 on gage B; then, by adding 8 spaces (the distance lost around the platen) to the 29 and setting the alarm finger at 37 on gage B the alarm will sound.

when the top edge of the paper reaches that point and the bottom line of the 49 desired lines will be spaced a distance from the bottom edge of the paper equal to the space left at the top of the sheet. It will thus be seen that the bottom edge of the paper acts in combination with 'both the gages B and 9, one gage determinin the width of the space at the top of the sheet and the other the width of the space left at the bottom of the sheet.

As before stated, six single-space lines to an inch is the usual typewritin spacing; therefore, on a sheet 13 inches ong, there would be 78 lines, but 78 lines would extend from one extreme edge to the other, leaving no margin at the topand bottom of the sheet; so, to provide small blank spaces at the top and bottom, the gage g is preferably marked to allow '(3 lines'only, and, when centered on a. 13-inch page, leave a blank margin at the top and bottom ap roximately oneialf of an inch in Width. n the same amount of printing space, 37 double-space and 25 triple-space lines can be written, and it will be observed from Fig. 4 of the draw ings that the middle lines 13, 19 and 37 of.

tively, are placed 1n alinementithis wilL no position lines 1 of the several columns in alinement and also the last lines 25, 37 and 73.

To prOVide a short length of gage, only alternate lines are designated by numbers, the even lines will, of course, be designated by the dividing lines.

Having thus-described my invention, what I claim 1S2 1. A device of the class set forth, embodying a supporting plate having means for supporting it on a typewriting machine, and

a gage means on said supportm plate having two separate columns of gures positioned to cooperate with the bottom edge of a sheet of paper of predetermined len th Started in the machine to indicate the acing of a predetermined number of lines of writing an equal distance from the top and bottom edges of the sheet.

2. The structure recited in claim 1-, said ing plate and the other gage plate is pro- 15 gage means comprising a pair of gage plates. vided with an adjustable larm mechanism 3. The structure recited in claim 1, said adapted to be operated by the top edge of gage meanseomprising a pair of gage plates, the sheet. 5 one of which is "adjustable on said support- 6. The structure recited in claim 1, said ing plate. gage means comprising a pair of gage plates 2 4. The structure recited in claim 1', said one of which indicates the position of the gage means comprisin a pair of gage plates first line of the matter to be written and the one of which is provi. ed with'an adjustable other indicatingthe position of the last line '10 alarm adapted to be operated by the top of the matter to be Written.

edge of the sheets p crown HENRY HERMANSEN.

5. The structure recited in claim 1, said \Vitnesses: gage means comprising a pair of gage plates E. W LIASON,

one ofwhich is adjustable on sand support- 7 HOMER WHE LER 

